v Taranaki

[taniwharugby]

@kev has been poor...his prodigious boot is a myth this far. Thoroughgood to come on after break please.

[J77]

@taniwharugby and Gregory for Tua please.

[kev]

@j77 so much good, and some dreadful.

[J77]

@kev I’d reverse that statement Kev! Haha

[taniwharugby]

@j77 poor tactics too leading to errors and them scoring off them.

[J77]

@taniwharugby exactly. Play for territory. Exit well and half the jobs done. This ‘free licence’ game plan is backfiring. Pick your moments..be smart.

[taniwharugby]

@j77 especially with that wind.

Doesn't look like any changes.

[J77]

Shit we can’t see our phase play through. Always an inevitable error to wreck it

[taniwharugby]

How fucking long for knock on advantage ffs

[J77]

Another entry call. Third one today!

[taniwharugby]

That looked like it missed from my seat

Fuck yes

[Dice]

Nice. Good win.

I didn't really watch the game, just saw the end result.

[BOPRED]

Great win.

Taniwha. You called in the fist post. the lads certainly gave you 80 minutes.

Great effort.

I love NPC footy

[Tim]

Good game from Tom Robinson.

[Tim]

@taniwharugby haha, I was thinking that too.

[J77]

Thank christ for that! Robinson was immense.

[African Monkey]

Great effort. Definitely the better side today led by Tom Robinson. Not usually a fan of Jordan Hyland but he looked very sharp with ball in hand. Probably the best I've seen him play.

[J77]

Great to nail one like that, as that more often goes against us.

I’m thinking we’ve got so much more to offer if we can tidy up certain parts of our game. Had a feeling we could have dismantled Taranaki good and proper if it weren’t for errors at crucial times.

Robinson, Matich and Goodhue stood up. I must say Jacobson was quite impressive too.

On the flip side Debreczeni needs to sharpen up, and Tua needs to play with the confidence we know he has. He tidied his game up in the second forty to be fair, but the first spell he was timid.

Want to see Hyland involved more. Makes yards every time.

Can’t fault the ticker though. We got the win we badly needed.

[kev]

Man -we give away soft as tries and then grind out a win. You could say that was the performance we were looking for, in the second half.

[kev]

@kev the thing is we always match sides for physicality. This time we played 80 on both attack and defence. Got to sort all the basics - forcing the odd pass, exits still not perfect but better.